Date of Kundakundacharya

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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ers. The original teachings embodied in this work are ascribed to Gunadhara from whom ( or from whose tradition ) Arya Nāgahasti and Arya Manksu (Ārya Mangu or Māghahasti)... teachers in the 2nd cent, A. D. ... of the Northern Nirgrantha tradition got them and the unknown Yāpaniya scholiast with the epithet Yati Vrsabha (between c. 4th-6th cent. A. D. ?) wrote the first available cūrnicommentary on it. Gunadhara might be the Gunandhara alias Guņasundara or Gunākara, preceptor of Arya Syāma II (c. 2nd-3rd cent. A. D. ) as recorded later in the medieval Svetāmbara Kālaka-katha lore. For linguistically and by content the text proper (versified) cannot go to the period before the Christian Era; it rather seems comfortable in the Kusāņa period-perspective The Svetāmbara sect has for long lost it. The first available Digambara Jaina commentary (Jayadhavala) on this work is by Svāmi Virasena, the commentary completed after his death by his worthy disciple Jinasena in A. D. 837.
19..Pt. Sukhalalji's Commentary on Tattvärtha Sūtra of Vücaka Umāsvāti, translated into English from the Hindi translation of the original in Gujarāti by K. K. Dixit, L. D. Series 44, Ahmedabad 1974, Appendix, p. 112. (Pt. Premi's original reply is in Hindi, verbatim published in the original and subsequent editions in Gujarātí as well as in the Hindi version of Pt. Sanghvi's Tattvārtha-sūtra )
20. Srikundakundācārya aur unake Grantha," (Hindi ), Jaina Sahitya aur Itihasa par Visada Prakākā, Calcutta 1956, p. 89.
21. For Kuppatür inscription, see Jaina Silalekha Sangraha, pt. 2. Ed. Pt. Vijayamurti, Bombay V. S. 2009/A. D. 1953. Ins. No. p. 269. For Humca inscriptions, ibid., No. 212, p. 294, and No. 214, p. 303. These two latter inscriptions place Kundakundācārya after Ganadhara Gautama and before Bhadrabāhu. In other words, Kundakundācārya, in the perception of the authors of these two inscriptions, flourished before B. C. 325. Upadhye misses these important inscriptions. They are indeed so helpful in placing Kundakundācārya even 300 years prior to the date he proposes.
22. Ibid., Ins. No. 122 from Manne. 23. Ibid., Ins. No. 123, also from Manne.
24. Jaina Silālekha Sangraha, pt. 4. Mānikyacandra Digambara Jaina Granthamālā, N). 48, Ed. Vidyadhar Joharapurkar, Ins. No. 55, pp. 28-30.
25. JÁS pt. 2, Ins. No. 95, p. 63. 26. Ibid. 27. Cf. his "Intro.." Pravacanasāra, pp. 18-19. 28. Cf. his "Intro.,” JÁS, pt. 2, pp. 47-53, infra. 29. I lately realized it was not Premi but some other author whose work is
curreñtly not handy.